Labour parades compassion for the poor, but it practised casual cruelty by consigning millions to benefits. Yet there's nothing compassionate about being trapped on benefits, being robbed of the dignity of work, and shut out from the choices that brings.
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity
Labor is no disgrace.
…it would be much better to enable every man to earn his own living, instead of being driven to the awful necessity of stealing and then dying for it.
At the time, theft was a capital offense in England.
Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Wages, which cannot be considered as a mere commodity must enable the worker and his family to have access to a truly human standard of living in the material, social, cultural and spiritual orders.
Liberty requires opportunity to make a living - a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.
I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders.
There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.
I want to be part of making sure that decent, honorable, humble, hardworking people in Pennsylvania can look their kids in the eyes. And when they put in their 40 hours, they can say to their kids, 'I got you.'
Honest labor bears a lovely face.
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration
There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
The obligation to earn one's bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor can it attain social peace.
Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.
I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.
The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
I'm a believer in private enterprise, the dignity of work, limited government, and the possibilities of freedom.
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves
